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LOCAL ITEMS.
3VSDAY, AUGUST d, : 1878.
'ow AdvertUioments.
For Probate Judge.
For Sheritf-Many Voters.
High living cannot be indulged in
without disagreeable consequences.
If you fool that your blood is out of
order use Dr. Bull'a Blood Mixture.
DMRETING AT F E.ISTERi VILLA.
Pursuant to an invitation from
the Feastervillo Club, Capt. H. A.
Gaillard visited that club on Satur
clay, the 3d inst., for tlo purpose
of answering tho charges preferred
by the club andi members thereof.
The club met at 3 o'clock, p.m., in the
church, and was called to order by
President V. P. Clayton. There
was a full attonuaneo of membors,
and a number of visitors were
present. The club having met, the
president called for the reading of
the minutos of the last meeting. They
were read. Mr. James Stevenson
objected to their confirmation. The
president askei what correctionl
should be in rdo in them. After
some desultory discussion, Mr. D.
R. Feaster asked the reisons of the
opponents of the confirmation. Mr.
Stevenson replied that lie h .d never
nade a speech and was no speaker,
but tht the minutes sh!uld not be
confirmed. Dr. Win. M. Moador
then said that the objectionable
feature was the resolition nomii
tin; oandidltes for the Legislature,
(This resolution was publishiel in
THE NEws AND 1hER.iin.) The presi
dent s.tid tha;t the minutos had
nothing to do with thit resolution.
That could only be reached by a
roc.msideration of the resolution.
Mr. Stevonson and Mr. Estos do
manded the question. Mr. Feaster
then moved thit the minutes be
adopted. A standing vote waq
taken and resulted : in favor of
adopting the minutes. 11; against
adoption, 24. The president an
nounced that the minutes had been
rejected, blt that the resolutioni
was the action of the club neverthe
less. [The object of the opponents
of the resolution was to rescind it
by rejecting the minutes.] After
some little running discussion, Mr.
D' .. Feaster moved that apt. H.
A. Gaillard be requested to addiress
the mneetina, which~ being adopted,
Cat (Lillard was introduced and
jp 2ke3 at length,
Cap. Gaill3ard's Speech.
Capt. Gaillard began by saying
that as ho had been made the sub
ject of criticism by this club. and by
mnembers of it through newspaper
SomI)mu.ii0,tijons, he had written a
* letter to the .cinb demanding? a
hearing, but that before semiding
the letter he~ had re:-sived an invi
tation from the club, and be now
- A.ppeared in respones to that, Ho
had been r,be recipient of favora in
the past fron) his friends in ,Feaster.,
ville, and evehn the recent criticism of
his political eonrse had been accom
panied by expressions of respect
and regard personally, In making
his defence, therefore, wvhile Speaik
iing plainly hue would scei*pulously
refrain from wousnding the feelings
of any one, After dwelling upon the
necessity of all Democrats uniting
ione comnmon cause, as dissensions
would be saura to invite disaster, ho
entered upon the subject of his
discourse. He said;
I went clown to Columbia iasmt
year to represent the good people
of Fairfield.county. My arst nongiM
:7 ationl was mf the nature of a detail
* for public service, whmen doefeat
seemed inevitable. No one nought
the pla.ce. We did not thoua succeed.
Subsequently wvhen a vacancy cc
* curred, I waLs nomninated again,
my second nominition springing
from tLe first without a word from
me. During may term I voted at
least a thousand times on matters ef
.every description, many involving
the moost intaicate questions. AIy
recor'd is before you. I do not
shrink frorm exammnation. I defy
scrutiny. (Oheers.) I went to
Golumbia and saw there the crushed
* a.uins of a State destroyq4 by alien
rascals and by .their colored dupes.
A constitg.tion bad been f.med
only. 40 be broken, laws enaGted
only to be .viola$ed,, vast sums ,of
money raised only to be stolen. Our
Mk was to ror al] aban An,1
now it appears there is discontent
becauso the Legislature has not,
in eleven months, resurrected the
people into prosperity and the State
into an erect position. To say that
the Legislature made some mistakes
is to say tlhat it was mortal, for to
err is human. Than this Legisla
ture, composed, by the way, at least
fourfiftha of farmers, there never
was a more patriotic, more doyot.d,
more earnest set of men, I say
this in defence of thorn againat the
aspersions of my friend, who says
that the State was only changing
nasters, He did this Legislature it
rank injustice, and . regret that
those charges have gone farthl as the
sentiments of the Feasterville Club
as far as the railroad goes and to
every post oflice and family to
which the county patpor is sent.
In this my friend did an injustice
to th;s club and to me.
Some time since, as a thunderbolt
in the clear sky, came the first
Feasterville resolutions, in w1ich I
was broadly censured in the same
terms as Nash or Snalls or Whit
tomoro would have boan.-th-it tllo
club protested against my re-eloc
tion to the Legislature. Wiien the
resolutions endorsed my colleague,
Mr. Brice, I can heartily endorse
them. Never was there a triter son
of South C:trolina and a mnore faith
ful represontative than he. To all
they say of him I respond, amen !
{ Lot me say that it is your right to
scrutiniz your rupresontaztives; you
should watch them ansi, if necessary,
criticise them. But when you do
censure a m in who in his Isonl
feels n) C.mn,clioulsneSs of %y. oilg
doing, you thioil specify your
charges, and not denounce lim in
bold terms, as if he were utterly
faithless or utterly base. But after
a while, a gentleman, and then
another gentleman, thro:i:h the
colunns of the paper, specify the
following matters wherein I have
offended,
TOY, aUARGEs,
1. That I voted against Judge
Mackey.
2. That I voted against an inves
tigation of the debt.
3. That I voted against the usury
law.
4 That I voted against the phos
phate bill.
5 That I said I knew more than
my constituents did.
G. Th.,t I voted with the Charles
ton delegation.
7. Ta.t I am a low-countrynan.
8. That. I am a lawyer.
Now, Mr. President, I an gl ioved
that my friend, who has known me
for years, should have made those
charges simply upon henia ,
without satisfying himself of
the justice of his accusations.
More especially am I hurt that he
should not have known me better
than to imagine that I wvould have
been guilty of t.ho remark that I1
knew more than my constituents
did. Of all the charges, that alone
stung mec. lie might also have
knownm that even1 had1( I thought
such a thing, I cold not be So) stui
p)id as to give publbc utterance to it.
But I inust proceed, and J will an
swer the charges one by one.
The first is that
I voTED AGAINST JUDGE MACKEY,
and therefore am not fit to re >re -
gen the peoplo of Fairfield. .Now.
Mr. Prosient, there wvere serious
questions involved in that eleetion,
nl)d .r am not p)reparo.l to findt fault,
with any one wvho dsffer~s f.rom me
in legard to the policy to be pur..
sued. But I remnenjjergd thogt our vic -
tory h ad been wVon on a straight->ut
p#jiform, .nsl I believe:d that the
safesr, plan, was to continue in thme
path: maitiked out in the glot ions
days of '76 M ,reoover~, Mr. Plro.si
dod., casting may vote as I did, I
believed I was obeying strictly the
instructions of thbe Fe.istervilie Club.
A wiss iman h:ath said, "Olh that
mine enemy wouldl write a book."
Mr. President, mUino enemy hatih
written a boo0k, and I wilhl read it to
himn. (Cheera..)
We remember the trying time
through wvhich the conty passed
last year, lin ,that cam~p.din I
stood with Feastorville, as a mat
ter of principle, when may personal
felings at that time inclined mwe all
the other way. Let me read a reso.
lution passed by this ciulb., in Abat
juncoure, just four months bef~o .I
east my vote for judge. It is as
followers:
"That wve deplore the apparent
intention of members of ,hme Demo
cratie party to 4mislato e man
outside of our ranija, as we egnaidex
such action the death stroke of pur
prt. (Signed) I? j. Fea8ter,
President, J. Hendrix McLane,
Secretary.-"
And some days later,, Mr. P. 11.
F.atri, a .pomnmunicatiosi to the
paper asks ".js ths clerk's oglee (or
any other once for that aLater) to
be tlhe reward foar jnyaluable s,ervic
es rendered in the )ash ea;ppaign ?"
and he answers, "Our organization
is not on.e of rewar4e and pmunish
ments." These are somm4 D)emoorat,
ec doctrines, and I tbonght so, then,
and think so now ; and therefore, in
the avons ftr the tha imal1 elec.
ti-mn, I obe'ye,1 the ilstructions of moy
constituenlts, and), votedl for ia truol
and trie(d straightout Democrat.
Of courso I obeyed the canis, and
voted for Judge Mackey in the elec
tion itself. This is my answer to
the first charge.
The second chargo is that
I VOTED AGAINST INVESTIoATION
of the public debt. To this I say,
th:it I voted for the freest
and fullest investigation, and
a committee sat for months
Og:t; ed in this laborious task.
TirQj report is a monument1011
of plattience, labor an:l a)ility. Bt I
when the report contained little
more tihan I COilirtm.LtiOl of wh:tt
was known before, then I beli(;ved
that th St:;te was bmnidl( in honor,
in law and in interest, to abide by the
settlement atlreaedy tuado. As to
the honor of the State, the Tax
p tyirs' Coiv.mtion of 1871 report
cd as the just debt the same
liabilitics as vor Cubraced in tIhe
C'onsolidt::t.*ln Scheme, anl-l they
pledged the !unor of the State to
pay them. Stiii hiter, ill the strig
glo of 1870, g hen it was deemued
necesHsaly to enlist all the poussible
element; on the side of the go:ld l
people of the State, the State l.
ecut.ivo Cotiuitteo pledge.l tho
party t i ubide by tuo Cons Ji-l:ati,um
Act. atn. who kn ,ws bat tllhat tihis
pie.lge tu. ned tlhe wavO. ing halaucu
in o4 r iavor ? It would have been
b.tl:l itjtstuiCa to repudiate this
pledge, for it would be but a re
puihiation of the gentlemen them
selves to whose patriotic (lovoti >n
iuich of the saccess Qf Oile C.alse
was due. dsilt lat.-r, whilu .;o(tt:
Carolina was in the thrcs of a
new birth, nd all the world stood
on tapt>u to witnss the d.-anu.
enaeting in Culhim bi, the Wa.illace
House, that bo.ly of tt iot.,
denied access to tiheir Ilall, and
without tlh. CJ-til,;!,.ttionl of a
Senate, passed a resolution staind
ing by tie settlement of the debt
as it then existed Kinowiig these
t.lings, I, as a member of t:o p
for whim th eso sole.,m pledges
were muade, felt that I cou,d nut
stultify myself by refusing to be
bound by them. Mureover, when,
AS a lawyer, 1 lnow t hat no net
could be passed iwp.tirin; the
validity of a contract, and thit
these C.'nlsolidation bQnds contained
a clause declaring the;n to be a
contract, and provid.ng for the
levy of a t:ax to p.ty the interest,
I felt that it was useless, otiur
considerations emitted, to cont, nd
against the inevitable, 'iuon bond
holders could enforce their claims
in the courts. As a question of
policy, I will say that the valid
ante-lReconstruct,ion debt, with
interest, amiw)mn tod on the 1st of
January, 1878, to $7,262,231, while
the Consolid ttion Aet, scaling all
debts one -half, sa(1Jl 41 debt of
onjy $5,098,500, being a gain of
over $1,200,0J0 to the State for a
settlement. These re:asons influ
enced my action. I am happy to
say, however, that a compromise
was reached by which the whole
matter has been referred to the
coi;rte for a:lju.lication. '.h'is is
my answer on this point.
THlE USUlRY LAW.
Again, I am censured for oppos
ing the usury Ilaw. Ou this puin)t
I would s ay that on my side are
arrayed every great master of
political economy since the days of
Adam Smith. This should1( at least
be some ciauso to susHpend .censure..
I have not time to enter into a
thiorough discussion of tlie su bj ot,
but will say th.tt money, like every
other species of property, is a com
modity, and hias its own price. If
1 have a horse worth a hundred
dollars and you have a hundred
dollars in money, I see no justice
in allowi-ug inlu to charge fifty
dollars for the un-e of my horse
while you are restricted to sevon
dollars for .the use of your iconey.
As a matter of relief to the borrow
snr, this usury lawv is a Oomnplete
failure. It poly of'ers temptations
to violate the lawv. Its oil'ect is to
oppress the p)oor. Executors and
guaLrd ia and tr ustees are i.e
stricted1 by lawv fro.n asking more
thtan seven per cent. for' the use
of mone,y belQnging to wvidows arnd
orphans, and they ditre not violate
the l.aw, while to c.apitalists and
so-ealled bloated bondnoldersu snap
their fingers ini de45ision ,n,l p)ursuio
t1.e oven tei)or of t.ieir way. (Ga to
a national baink to- (lay, and you
not only are compeiled to pay
.eighten per cent. discount on.
bob-rof security, but are made
Vgsigt)a pedge that neither your
golf, your heirs, executori, admlinIise
tratora nor assigns will over pload
the benefits of tuo usury law. T$Ihe
law has not afforded a particle of
r.elief. Again, thie actual bQrrowiigg
of rooney forms but a small part of
a farmer's business operadions. He
nogQtiates (or lbacoip and Islegl und
the n.ecessaries of life. For' every
thousnd .dolUgra' WQrth of money
let out,, perhaps a hupdred thou.
sand are expeuded in agricultural:
advances, to whichi the usury lawi
does not in the least apply. 4:
n,onna af ban, of which the cah
price is si (itt:. i sl d on four
Im1onths' tLiune, sty for tw lye ('(ntt :
huro is at percel tage of onle IltrledI
per 'ellnt. for four months, or th. ec
at,dred per c'ent. per (cnn u. ! T he
IntoroFt oIL corn is in similar pro..
p)Ortiol. Thus wu suo that for the
)ecessarios of life, without which a
armner woild lio down and die, hie
)ayS 0IormlOCs perc:eitango, and no
aw intorforos. Where is the jus
ico of this ? Where the consisten..
y ? I do0 not clatimt that it is
vrong to charge these rates.
fvory man knows his own buiiness
md what ho must chargo to savo
limusell ; but 1 do claim CIA'at it is
mjliSt to t sufler porsons having
vlihit rate of intere>;t they please,
md then to ('ensure tne bee uso I
lo not feel it right to ('onpel ia
):rsonu hatvin; a few dollars to lend
,0 put thm out at sevenl per (ent.
L'ie usury law deftets itself, in my
)piiol. But s people are ivided
)m this matter, I only say that I
)opo I shili not be censured he
uso I entertain the views I have
aXpressed in this matt er.
THE P11oSPHATES.
The next charge is that I voted
or the p!hosphato bill, and I tm
,old if Mr. Brice and I did, we
touid receive suneh a roituko at t he
d1,>t-box its would 1)e t w,trning to
)thers. I remotber that in a old
listo y there was it chapter on.
itled, "A Chapter on Snakes in
[t elald," and the chapter is simply
-"1'here are no snakes in Ireland."
So, my defence for voting for rthe
phos;pllte bill is timt I did
tot vote for the phosphate bill.
' lon. discisi.,ii clnsued, an-1 on all
he test que.i.ions I oppoedl the bill,
tlthotl1 I must say that I was in
rave (ubtht itf.er rcading tho ableC
uport of the attorney, general as to
he prope' policy. However, after
t long light I wu: defeated, and the
ill p,sod the test inl the s'cond
'o tdieg by a vote a voto of 57 to 47.
'i'etn, linding that the principle
,vonld be e,t iblishtd, I tiough:t the
>ill presinited wotild u.irry Lit ..n out
)erfei'etly well, atti titerefor on the
,atird ru.thIln, which w\as a formal
ling, t a1n1 thirty others resolved
) Ill ke co further ca)tions opposi
1o1), and we did aegjiiesce in it on
,ho third reading. Ttin bill, by the
vly, was a fti'iiiers' measure. The
awyers sto>d 9 to 9 atd te farmersI
)7 to 13 in favor of the bill. It is
nercfore 1)0 sche,te of the ltawyers
'o injture the peoplu.
As before said, I ditd not say I
knew bettor than amy constituents
vh)at they waIte.i. Wii it. .I stid was
h1is. Oti the debt, question I was told
Lhat the people vanted repudlti"ion.
[ answered that. I did not know
what, the peopio Wal) ted, because
lhey bad had no meeti,ngs tO in1Stiuct
ne, and had not written, anid .t did
it beloieveo the people w.anted it; bu t
)ven if they did, I comad not go
Lgain st imy con)sclinco in it nuttteir
mviioling cons(ciee rnid honor.
l'or'tureo that, if y'ou cani, inito the
xmark charged again st me.
On 0on0 occaionu Edmiuind Butrke
Wias itnstruicted by the~ peo4pl(e of
Bristol to v'ote for the war aginist
3miUicai. lie continlu.ed to oppose
.t, and on his return matde a briuint
speech, of wvhichi the following is ia
part. "I did niot ,boy your instruc
nonls. No. I conformed to the
nistructtions of tr'uth and nature, and
11nutmed your interosts against
your op.njions, wvith a constancy that1
1ecamfle me. A represontittive wor
,by of you ought to be a mani (.f sta
>uity. I mni) to look indeed to your
spnos but to such opin:ions its
youi anid 1 mu.t) haiv.e /ive years
'Cne. I wats not to look at the
Llsh of the (liy. I know that you
shose mne in my3 place along with
)Llhers to be a piliar of the' Stato,
act a~ wiiather-cock on the top of
ho eoditice, exalted for my levity
01d versaitility, and( of no use but to
ndicatte the shiftings of overy fash
unable gale." Now, my friends,
you can imagine to perched like a.
sycat..or,ecock on the roo~f o& the State
3tapitol, waiting fbr a breezo. As a
bophyr from Alonticello wvould in
Ihno me3 one way, IE woul be mot
ya fresh flirt fr'oim Foastervul,
md ais I would voor ini that direc
tion, a blast fr'oim Boar Creek wonid
.'uih,t me, and I would be tossed
tbout in every point of the compass
y erty br'eath from JIlidgeway, or
D)oko, or Gladden's 'Grovo, or jtuiy
>)tho(r podint, turning to snowi any
rantlsienlt breeze. I could nout do that.
5TobodIy can) t.el exactly what the poo.
)lo wayt, becusUe th.o people di1f r.
tA legislator must be like a juror,
tworn to degido aiccordinig to the
.4v andiL the eviden~ce. .On all side
sites there were .diverse opinions
n Fairliold, and I could only do
what.[ believed to be the best for
dl.
Again, I are accused of voting
vith
THlE CHARILESToN DELEGATION.
I would only sy that the delegates
'r.omn Charleston were aimong the
nost catholic, liberal .sn4 public
ipirited mornbors of the House, and
't is a notorious circumstance that
hbev generally voted on all siden 'ef
volt wit hi the Charleston, dolega.w.
t ion, I lont koIuw. But thla sting.
of t his charge lies in the inpJicatio,
that there i.s im antagonismi botwgeo
teio up-country qnd the low-country,
'This cannot be. We are all partA
of a common Stato, and every see,
tion doos her duty to. the lest ef
her ability.
Again, it is objicted, as I am iA
formed, that I am
A LOW-COUNTRY MAN.
Mr. President, my ancestors came to,
this country two hundred years ago.
Since that time they have never left
Soith Carolina. Hero. they wore
born, hero they labored and here
their bones rcest. As for mself,
from my earliest recollections I
havo been a citizen of Fairfield.
Fron hero I entered the army.
Ihie I have spent my life. If an
unbroken heritage of two hundred
years docts not entitle me to a share
of devotion to the interests of our
mother State, I know nothing that
doet. But, Mr. President, if a gon.
tloman should come from Chester
to Faittield, and prove, within six
niontlis, that he( isla proper person tq
represett mew(, I would support hier
as heartily its if ho had been born
and raised in Fairfield. I cannot
bear the insinuation that I could be
false to F.irtield, because my fore
fathers lived in any other portion of
our common State. That insinua
tion was unjust. I know no section.
To the last charge, that
I AM A LAWYER,
1 will say but little, as time presses.
Lawyers are not antagonistic to
faimers; indeed, the prosperity of
the one depends on the welfare of
the other, and notwithstanding my
fI iend's assertion that the lawyers
ti ive in proportion to the poverty
of t.,o country, I would merely say
that unless times improve, the law
yer3 will themselves remove all cause
for discunsiun by lying down and
dying of starvation. As to lawyers
encouraging law-making, it is well
know.i that they are most conserva~
tive, and cling to established cus
toms. Nor do they work in cliques,
as lais been charged.
An analysis of the votes of the
Legislature shows that the lawyers
divided every time, most frequently
half amid half. Now, I am a .t'awyor,
and althi'ugh I am not as good a one
ai I would wish to be, I will stand
by my colors. I believe that farmn
ers should be represented. They
make as good imembers ats could be
found. What I object to is the ex
clusion of any class, whatever it be.
This is unjust. No man should be
thus practically disfranchised.
In conclusion, Ir. President, lel
me say that I hope I have not of
fended any one. Such was not my
intention. I anm obliged *to on all
for your patient attention, and hop
inig that we will be all uited, and
will win a glorious victory in 1878,
I tako my seat. [Applanse.]
The remainder of the report is
crowded out of the present issue. It
will appear iu our n)ext.
FOR PROBATEiJUDGEi.
The friendsq of CAPT. J. R. BOYLES
nominate him13 for Probate Judge at the
ensuing election-subject to the result
.of the Democratic prinnry electiop.
aug 6-tI'
FOR SHERIFF.
Messrs. JAlours :-Pleaso announce MR.
AARON 11. P'OWELL as a candidate for
sheriff' mt the ensuing election-subjec$
to the action of thme Democratic party at
thme primary election.
aug 6xtxtU MANY YOTERS.
Great Re&uction 7
-HO I FOR -
--0
rp -iH first House in town to rednce
J.Whiskey to ten cents a drink, lleor
to live cosxts a glass anld Billiards fifteerp
eeptn per game. ilaving a large aud well
selepted lot o,f Puye Liquora on haud of
which the following are a f.ow of' the
byands:
Punre old Kentuolky Bourbon, Cabinet,
XXXX and Baker Rye, Soutr Mansh St.on9
Meuntain Corn, a specialty, C,ogeao,
Cal iforn ia, P'each and( Aprple Brnndies,
(Chamn>agno, Shmerry and Port Wines.
Cineinn ti L~ager Beer always kep.t oti
.4.i, andl all norism of fancy and cool drinke
pIrelpareod iri 0,o nmoiit tasty manner at'
OUR HOUSE.
april 30-tr J. D. Mio3ARLEY.
BARGAINS -l BARGAINS I'
FOR CASH
Clothing,
Shpeo,
Dr Goode
and
F.apey gond;
will be sold r ardless of oon.6, ae oe
musb be rat4